Cookies!!

2.13.11

 What would Valentines Day be without heart shaped sugar cookies? Oh, I don't even want to think about it.

{We LOVE them in our family & make them each year}

I have the best recipe that I have used for years

{from Martha of coarse}  they are so tasty. 

I send one up to my Grandma Hall every year {she's 92} because she loves them so much.

However she does not like how much I spend on postage to mail her cookie up to her ;) 

Sugar Cookies

4 C. Flour

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. Baking Powder

1/2 {2 sticks} butter

2 C. Sugar

2 Eggs

2 tsp. Vanilla

1 tsp. Lemon Juice 

  With an electric mixer, cream together butter & sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs.  Add flour, salt, and baking powder to the butter mixture. Stir in vanilla & lemon juice.  Wrap dough in plastic & chill for 30 min. Heat oven to 325 & on a floured surface roll the dough to a 1/4 " thickness & cut into desired cookie cutter shape. transfer to an ungreased baking sheet & bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are brown.

 

So glad that my girls love to bake as much as I do. Just to let you how much we enjoy making sugar cookies around here we have a drawer, in the kitchen island,  specially devoted & used to hold cookie cutters of all shapes & sizes. 

The day after Christmas the 1st question my girls seem to ask is,"When is Valentines Day?"  They look forward to all the fun things we get to do as a family. One of them being making sugar cookies & surprising a few of our neighbors & friends.  The girls spend the day cutting out paper hearts & plotting who we are secretly going to take sugar cookies too & stick all of the paper hearts on their doors- knock & run away. 

{We have been doing this for years & have never been caught once. Close a few times but never caught in the act!}

My favorite part about doing this as a family is when we get done {we try to do 3 houses}the girls are so excited that we usually end up doing another 2 or 3 homes. 

-Em & Mace cutting out paper hearts-

{We have to double the sugar cookie recipe!}



We love to drive around the day after & see all the hearts on the doors of our friends. So happy to have these wonderful memories with my family of giving & sharing love with the people who we get to live around.

Happy baking!

{M}